MINISTRY OF WAR PRODUCTION / Armament Minister - Lord Haldane PRIME MINISTER / Head of Government - Henry Herbert AsquithįOREIGN MINISTER / Foreign Minister - Lord Edward Grey HIS MAJESTY THE KING / Head of State - King George V The British government path is as follows:ġ914 - a provisional 'coalition' cabinet is formed by HH Asquith (incumbent PM). Thus I have allowed for the 'office' to actually reflect whoever had a predominant 'voice' at the time. The British have MANY potential Armament ministers since the 'office' was spread out amongst a number of ministers representing many 'vested interests'. I'm not sure if ministers with different ideologies from the head of government can serve so many of them have two or more ideologies, sometimes with different stances for each, to enable them to serve in different 'coalition governments'. The Ministers have their Political Ideologies, stances, loyalty and dates of availability. Australia/New Zealand have very minimal manpower while Britain's people/government are very opposed to what will prove an unavoidable step (this is why there were so many 'schemes' including the Kitchener 'New Army' scheme, Derby's 'pals and chums' and 'volunteer' schemes in an attempt to avoid conscription.) The 'schemes' should provide manpower at cost to vital industry while Conscription should provide manpower at a more minimal cost to industry but a high cost in dissent (particularly if enacted in 1914-1916). The issue of conscription should dog the British commonwealth governments as they struggle to maintain their fighting divisions at the front.
But then India will have a set of problems all her own). In addition there is the issue of conscription as the British commonwealth, particularly Britain herself has never relied on conscription to fill her ranks (hmmm. When this does not prove to be the case, scandals and dissent begin to plague the governments with accusations of corruption or mismanagement of the war. The general pattern is of coalition governments being formed from the disparate threads of the opposing political parties with a fervent hope that it will be a short war. The list is by no means exhaustive particularly for the Commonwealth governments. The British and Commonwealth political set up during WW1. Just in case I forgot to post these before.
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